the pride of Africa's women entrepreneurs
Source: Modern Ghana | published 27 June 2014
The Chief Executive Officer of House of Tara International, Tara Fela-Durotoye, has begun taking the message of Nigeria's massive business opportunities across the globe - making premium appearances on several global platforms including the New York Forum Africa (NYFA), France24 and Africa 24 by Reuters.
Read moreSource: Wisdom Exchange TV | Published on Jun 24, 2014
Part 1 Expertise ... Wisdom Exchange TV takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, introducing a pioneer in the aviation industry. Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation, the first 100% black female owned aviation company providing professional and personalized flight options to destinations around the world.
Read moreSource: Wisdom Exchange TV | Published on Jun 24, 2014
Part 2 - Philosophies ... Wisdom Exchange TV takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, introducing a pioneer in the aviation industry. Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation, the first 100% black female owned aviation company providing professional and personalized flight options to destinations around the world.
Read moreSource: Wisdom Exchange TV | Published on Jun 25, 2014
Part 3 - Conscious Contributions™ ... Wisdom Exchange TV takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, introducing a pioneer in the aviation industry. Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation, the first 100% black female owned aviation company providing professional and personalized flight options to destinations around the world.
Read moreSource: Wisdom Exchange TV | Published on Jun 25, 2014
Part 4 - Leadership Lessons ... Wisdom Exchange TV takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, introducing a pioneer in the aviation industry. Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation, the first 100% black female owned aviation company providing professional and personalized flight options to destinations around the world.
Read moreSource: Keroche Foundation | Published on June 18, 2014
Tabitha Karanja founder of Keroche Breweries has launched the Keroche Foundation a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping young Kenyan entrepreneurs harness their leadership potential and passion to sustain business ideas. Watch this video which provides a look at their mentorship programme.
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Trust your gut instincts....
- Njeri Rionge is one of Kenya’s most successful and revered serial entrepreneurs. She co-founded Wananchi Online, a leading Internet service provider which has gone on to become East Africa’s leading cable, broadband and IP (Internet-based) phone company.
Read moreSource: rainmakerstelevision | Published on June 10, 2014
Susan Mashibe is the first Tanzanian FAA certified pilot and airplane mechanic. She returned to her home country to start an aviation business. Hear the difficulties she encountered.
Read moreSource: FRANCE 24 English | Publication date: 06/09/2014
Tara Fela-Durotoye is a Nigerian lawyer and beauty entrepreneur. She founded House of Tara International, Nigeria’s leading beauty and cosmetics company, and was named one of Forbe's '20 Young Power African Women'. Here she talks about her company and journey as an entrepreneur.
Read moreDr. Jennifer Riria is a PHD holder and is distinguished as a microfinance banker and practitioner, researcher, and gender specialist. This video tells her story.
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Dr. Jennifer Riria, group chief executive Kenya Women Holding
Source: Financial Times UK | by Liz Bolshaw | 5 June 2014
Jennifer Riria is an entrepreneur with a mission. Her career has been focused on transforming the lives of women – and with them, their families – in her native Kenya. Today, she is group chief executive of Kenya Women Holding, a microfinance, banking and insurance group that works with 900,000 women, employs 2,800 people and since inception has disbursed $1.3bn of loans, each one averaging less than $600.
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Find people you can trust and who will support you in the early stage of your venture…
- Anne Githuku-Shongwe is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Afroes Transformational Games - a company that builds mobile game-based learning platforms out of South Africa and Kenya. Anne's vision is to revolutionise learning in Africa with a focus on delivering positive Africa-focused mobile phone entertainment to the youth market across the continent.
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- Donna Kelley is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College in the United States. She is a board member of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA), the oversight board of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project and leader of the GEM U.S. team. She co-authored the 2012 African Entrepreneurship - Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Report.
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- Alison Jacobson is Co-founder and CEO of Firestring, a South African technology company leveraging social architecture to revolutionise knowledge management. The company delivers enterprise search and collaboration technologies so that knowledge workers can find each other’s content and share information easily, like users do on the consumer Web using Google and Facebook.
Read moreSource: NdaniTV | Published on June 2, 2014
Wecyclers founder and CEO, Bilikiss Adebiyi Abiola shows us how "one man's waste is another man's treasure" in this edition of Young CEO. Watch to find out how she used a simple business model to convert over 2,000 tones of waste into over N1 million naira worth of prizes and incentives, and to create numerous jobs within the community.
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Source: Good Governance Africa, by Omondi Oloo, June 01, 2014
The soft-spoken Ms Karanja, 49, is the founder and CEO of Keroche Breweries, Kenya's first locally owned beer manufacturer. Despite her calm demeanour, Ms Karanja is unrelenting in her quest to expand Keroche's share of Kenya's lucrative liquor trade beyond its current 5%. Her target is to command a 30% share within a decade, she says.
Ms Karanja's story is a classic "David and Goliath" tale...
Read moreIn this video interview conducted at the 2014 Milken Institute Global Conference, Cherie Blair discusses her Foundation's three-pronged approach of enterprise development, mentorship and mobile technology, strengthening women's voices and empowering them to contribute to their nations' economies.
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- Melissa Ng [Eng] is the co-founder of PianoVerse, a place to play, learn, and love music in New York. She is also the creator of inspirational blog PlayLearnLoveLife.com and motivational doodle-blog Lumecluster.com, where she helps entrepreneurs and purpose-seekers believe in their potential.
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- Cyan Banister is the American founder and Editor-in-Chief of Zivity, a platform for models and photographers. She is a prolific angel investor along with her husband Scott Banister who is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.
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